Language

The East Indians kept their language alive on the sugar plantations as they did not know the English language. The Indians who came to the plantations spoke different languages such as spoke Urdu, Tamil and the most popular, Hindi. However, with these languages being relatively similar the Indians were able to communicate with each other and as some of the immigrants such as the Brahmins were literate and they wrote in the Hindi language which is known as Sanskrit. Below is a video on how to spell and the pronunciation of popular Hindi words as well as there is a list of words in relation to family and there meaning.